>>>>Some 10 minutes later, the captain managed to open the cockpit security door using an emergency code. He had completed training for such an eventuality a month beforehand.
This is the last paragraph of the article, yet so much is left unsaid
> co-pilot was very pale, sweating profusely and making strange movements
Heart attack symptoms.
There were previous instances of both pilots falling asleep for much longer timespans.
Wild that cars can detect you taking your eyes off the road and yet this...
In the US at least, the cockpit door is locked from the inside.
What happens in this situation if they can’t open it?
I think in the US at least they block the cockpit door with a food cart while the pilot goes to the bathroom. Maybe they leave it unlocked then?
It was flown by an autopilot before the pilot fainted. As it was after they brought him back. My sarcastic response to this line is “I fucking hope it was, imagine the mess if it didn’t”.
The main problem is, there was one guy in the cockpit.
They're usually flown by auto-pilot, in one mode or another. That part isn't interesting.
I feel like I've heard of a rule that there must always be at least two (or maybe exactly to) people in a cockpit in any given time to guard against this as well as hijacking and stuff, am I imagining this or missing something?